• Rediphile@lemmy.ca
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      8 months ago

      Companies with ongoing military contracts may be much more lucrative in the long run.

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        The pay is shit or at most on par compared to tons of web dev jobs in e commerce etc. I make more aligning divs than my friends in aerospace and defense who are leveraging their advanced degrees. Abandoning your morals hardly even pays ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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          To be fair, aligning divs was historically a labor intensive process. Damn kids with their flexbox don’t even know…

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    Most fresh grads just want to make enough of a living wage to one day afford a house. Morals can be fucking expensive.

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    It very very much depends on the country you’re from. In Ukraine a better slogan would probably be “my moral compass led me to Lockheed Martin”

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    After all I’ve been through I probably would too. I’m very tired of being poor as fuck.

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    In 2016 I started an entry level job in cybersecurity for a small Family-owned defense contractor making $55k. 7 years later in 2023 I’m working at one of the Big 4 defense contractors and I’m making $173K.

    My degree is in criminal justice from a State School.

    As long as you have a 4 year degree, can obtain Secret clearance, and can get CompTIA Security+ any defense contractor on the East or West Coast will take you.

    Yes, I am a cog in the military-industrial complex which makes me part of the problem and not the solution, but I live comfortably and my family is happy, so I’ll sacrifice my morals for them.

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    I at least appreciate the great stuff they make for the Ace Combat series…

    Although maybe we could design cool jet fighter assets without designing multi-billion-dollar real ones first…

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    My moral compass is calibrated to “Mad Scientist”

    Evil Minion is a pretty good entry-level for that position

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      8 months ago

      Ah yes, those damn teachers (and nurses if you live in a place with public health care) that sold their souls for money… /s

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      The folks at social security I’ve talked with seem to be super concerned about getting our checks to us on time. To be fair, angry vets go to the DVA and start waving a handgun around all the time, like once or twice a week. (No, security doesn’t jail them because the military turned them into that in the first place) I don’t know if that sort of thing happens very often at SocSec.

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      8 months ago

      Them parks n’ rec, librarians, municipal water engineers, health inspectors… they’re all in on it. /s

      (sincerely: an anarchist)